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Summary
DevOps, Cloud & AI Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure at scale. Track record of reducing deployment lead times by over 90%, managing 150+ microservices on Kubernetes, and driving infrastructure cost optimisation across multi-account AWS environments. Certified in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker. Passionate about platform engineering, observability, and enabling developer self-service through automation and Infrastructure as Code.
Education
Sep 2009 - May 2013
Bachelor of Faculty of Arts and Science - University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
experience
Mar 2025 - Present
DevOps & AI Engineer - SC Technology Limited
London, UK
- Designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, managing Kubernetes workloads and CI/CD pipelines for production services
- Building AI-powered automation tools and integrating large language models into developer workflows and internal platforms
- Implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform across multi-environment deployments with GitOps-driven delivery
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
DevOps Engineer - Bench
Toronto, ON
- Architected and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment lead time from 2 hours to under 8 minutes
- Managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS orchestrating 150+ microservices serving 10M+ daily API requests with 99.95% uptime
- Built reusable Terraform modules for multi-account AWS infrastructure, enabling self-service provisioning across 12 AWS accounts
- Designed and deployed a full observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo) reducing mean time to resolution by 65%
- Implemented GitOps workflows with Argo CD and ApplicationSets, standardising deployments across development, staging, and production
- Led cost optimisation initiatives cutting monthly AWS spend by 35% through right-sizing, Reserved Instances, and Spot Fleet strategies
May 2019 - Mar 2022
Cloud Engineer - data.io
Toronto, ON
- Migrated legacy on-premise workloads to AWS, containerising 30+ services with Docker and deploying to ECS and EKS
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and CloudFormation across multi-region AWS environments
- Built and maintained Jenkins pipelines for 40+ repositories, integrating automated testing, security scanning, and artifact management
- Implemented centralised logging and monitoring with CloudWatch, ELK Stack, and custom Grafana dashboards
- Designed VPC architectures with Transit Gateway, enabling secure cross-account networking for 8 AWS accounts
Apr 2014 - Mar 2019
Operations Manager - Sportradar
Toronto, ON
- Managed real-time sports data operations for live events, ensuring sub-second data delivery across global CDN infrastructure
- Led a team of 15+ operators handling live coverage of 200+ sporting events per week across multiple time zones
- Developed operational dashboards and automation scripts reducing manual intervention by 40% during peak event hours
- Collaborated with engineering teams on system reliability, contributing to platform uptime improvements from 99.5% to 99.9%
- Designed incident response procedures and escalation workflows adopted company-wide across 3 regional offices
Skills
AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront)
Terraform & Terragrunt
Kubernetes & Helm
Docker & Container Orchestration
Jenkins & GitHub Actions
Argo CD & GitOps
Prometheus, Grafana & Loki
Python, Bash & Java
Ansible & CloudFormation
Linux System Administration
Networking & Security (VPC, IAM, SCP)
Agile & Scrum Methodologies
Incident Management & SRE
Cost Optimisation & FinOps
Additional Information
- Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Data Engineer Associate, HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Docker Certified (Silver)
- Open Source: Published Terraform modules on the HashiCorp Terraform Registry; Docker images on Docker Hub; active GitHub contributor with public repositories for infrastructure automation
- Side Projects: Built and maintain 6 production web applications (rsvp, bash, price, live, doviz, convert) hosted on personal AWS infrastructure with CI/CD pipelines
- Languages: English (Fluent), Turkish (Native)